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Published inDec 2021
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Marc Boorshtein
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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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Deploying a monolith

This chapter is about microservices, so why are we starting with deploying monoliths in Istio? The first answer is, because we can! There's no reason to not get the benefits of Istio's built-in capabilities when working with monoliths in your cluster. Even though it's not a "microservice" it's still good to be able to trace through application requests, manage deployments, and so on. The second answer is, because we need to. Our microservice will need to know which user in our enterprise is calling it. To do that, Istio will need a JWT to validate. We'll use our OpenUnison to generate JWTs first so we can call our service manually and then so we can authenticate users from a frontend and allow that frontend to call our service securely.

Assuming you started with a fresh cluster, we're going to deploy OpenUnison the same way we did in Chapter 5, Integration Authentication into Your Cluster, but this time we have a script...

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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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